Friday, 8 January 2010

Oldest Hebrew Writing Found, Deciphered...and it's in Greek !!!

Posted on: Thursday, 7 January 2010, 15:25 CST

We can plainly see Greek characters inscribed, so the question is can they decipher the inscription?

Israeli archaeologists reported on Thursday that they had decipheredwhat they believe to be the oldest known Hebrew writing – a 3,000year-old inscription discovered 18 months ago in the same location theBible says David slew Goliath.

The pottery shard contained five lines of text in the proto-Canaanitescript used by Hebrews, Philistines and others in the region duringthat time.

Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa decrypted the writing.

Mr. Galil "has shown this is a Hebrew inscription," said theuniversity in a statement.

"The discovery makes it the earliest known Hebrew writing," read astatement from the university.

The archaeologists used carbon dating to show that the inscriptiondates back to the 10th century BC, or about one millennium older thanthe Dead Sea scrolls.